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JRPGfan on 10 June 2016

If its not on Steam or GoG I dont play it on pc.
I bet alot of pc users have the same mentality.



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Swordmasterman on 10 June 2016

Atleast Quantum Break sold more on Windows Store than on Steam.



Sixteenvolt420 on 10 June 2016
Mr Puggsly said:
Sixteenvolt420 said:

Hoestly, pretty much all that i do with my PC, is browse the web.

Well then maybe its the OS for you and hopefully you'll never need it for anything more.

I personally would never buy a Chrome OS computer because why get a machine that does significantly less than Windows? Given how irrelevant Chrome OS has been I guess most people agree with my logic.

I'm just sticking with my Windows 7 for now, as it does more than what i even need. Just never knew that Google had an OS of their own. Nice to know i have another option, just incase MS finds a way to sneak Windows 10, onto my computer.



Mr Puggsly on 10 June 2016
Sixteenvolt420 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Well then maybe its the OS for you and hopefully you'll never need it for anything more.

I personally would never buy a Chrome OS computer because why get a machine that does significantly less than Windows? Given how irrelevant Chrome OS has been I guess most people agree with my logic.

I'm just sticking with my Windows 7 for now, as it does more than what i even need. Just never knew that Google had an OS of their own. Nice to know i have another option, just incase MS finds a way to sneak Windows 10, onto my computer.

I like Windows 10, but I'd go all the way back XP before I even consider a Chrome OS device.

I'm not sure if you can install Chrome OS on PC. I think computers are designed for it. Just stick with old version of Windows if you dont want 10.



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silvergunner on 10 June 2016
Aeolus451 said:
Figured it wouldn't work out. MS is too anti-consumer with a lot of their "ideas". MS tried to change gaming consoles with the xbox one before the gen started. It tried it again with the windows store for PC gamers. Gamers can smell the greed a mile away.

MS should have mirrored steam's service exactly and tried to improve it in small ways. Build a stronger brand by delivering good games that work and offer really good deals. Also, support mods. Over time, the windows store would have absorbed some of steam's fans into it's ranks.

Windows Store was designed to mimick the original Android Market (pre-Google Play) more than anything else. Pet projects at Microsoft never copy the best features from other products and improve on them. Instead they copy the worst features and add layers of rubbish to them. Vista's new GUI ripped off OS X but slowed almost all hardware to a crawl. Zune was an ugly plastic ripoff of the iPod with a bad user interface. Kin were aimed at the iPhone and Blackberry but we're so bad they were killed after six weeks on the market, crippled to prevent competing with Windows Phone 7.

 

The closest thing to Steam out there is ironically Xbox Live, and Microsoft didn't use that as a base for their grand Metro initiative. Instead we got the awful Windows Store which, from experience, is barely functional and frustrating to use.



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pokoko on 10 June 2016

I just had Windows 10 reset my default browser to Edge from Chrome so, yeah, I do not want to see Microsoft with any kind of power over PC gaming. I actively distrust them.



Slimebeast on 10 June 2016

Very good. I hope it means future Xbox "exclusives" will end up on Steam.



thismeintiel on 10 June 2016

Like many attempts by MS to dominate a market, they release 2-5 years after a clear market leader has risen, as well as a bold 2nd (sometimes even 3rd) place choice. And their product is nothing extraordinary to cause people to switch. They really should just start focusing on making Windows a product the masses actually enjoy using again.



 

Swordmasterman on 10 June 2016
thismeintiel said:
Like many attempts by MS to dominate a market, they release 2-5 years after a clear market leader has risen, as well as a bold 2nd (sometimes even 3rd) place choice. And their product is nothing extraordinary to cause people to switch. They really should just start focusing on making Windows a product the masses actually enjoy using again.

Not forcing people to use it Is a nice first step.



Mummelmann on 11 June 2016
Chazore said:
Mummelmann said:

And not a soul was surprised, this is 100% deserved, the PC community is seething after MS promised they'd be "focusing on PC again" a couple of years back. If this is them focusing on PC; I'd rather they didn't and leave it to those who have a clue how to do things right and without forcing things on consumers.

I rememebr reading this thread on Gaf a few years back. It details the list and documented promises MS has made to PC gamers over the years and as you can see, hardly any of them have worked out if at all: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=88868188&postcount=177

THis just shwos that MS doesn't really see PC gaming as something to allow roaming freely, they would rather control it and keep it in a box (hence the whole GFWL and the fact that they never once said they would completely do away with the system and Win 10/store is the result).

When I first heard of 10 I was positive that maybe for once things would finally start to turn out right, but then the free update turned out to be finnicky and attaching itself to your mobo when the free update expires which meant your previous 7-8 key would be rendered worthless and the current OS being chained to a single mobo which meant less options to upgrade your rig let alone a new one without having to call up the hotline in India and rabble on for a new key or paying £100 for a new one, those to me are the same old shit options that haven't really changed and it shows that MS hasn't either.

The only way minds like that truly work is when they are near the brink of death and show the will to survive, right now I don't think they give a rats ass about the state they are in because they certainly haven't spun around the wheel since their promise back in 2013 to PC gaming let alone the myriad of promises from well over a decade ago.

It's really sad when the main provider of OS and graphics acceleration software packages for a platform is the one that cares the least about actual gaming on said platform and its consumers.